Tuesday, 17 July 2012

CC2C - Spritz and Flick Distress

Hello Fellow Bloggers

The Lovely Linda over at Studio L3 has asked this week to see our Spritz and Flick Distress technique (try saying that when you have had a few!) which can be found on page 42 of the new Compendium of Curiosities II book by Mr Tim Holtz. This week the lovely guys at Simon Says Stamp are sponsoring the Challenge with a chance to win $25 worth of vouchers. I have just realised this is Challenge no. 13 - maybe I will be lucky!

Here is my take on the subject...

I got an idea into my head of numbers. How they surround every little aspect of our lives and how many stamps/stamp sets I have which have numbers in them.

I have to say though that I never seem to be able to do this technique like the Man himself can. Let me show you what I mean...

You see, when I flick I tend to only get little droplets and not the lovely big droppers that you see Mr Holtz achieve. However, undeterred I decided to try a different way of playing with the water to see if I could improve it, and I think I have managed it a little better in this piece......

What I did was to let the water seep through my fingers and then give a little shake to my hand and it gave much bigger droplets.

And so as not to waste the piece of card I had just inked up I decided to turn it into a card.

As well as Linda's Challenge I am also entering the card into these Challenges too:-

13 comments:

What a lovely card ... Adore the background you created. Just bought myself some new inks and vintage Santa stamp to might have to push myself out of the comfort zone to create like this.Thanks for joining ChNC challenge 81Catherine xxx

Like your idea of turning it into a card. It looks lovely. Just had a lightbulb idea on what I can use as my snippets box cos mine are in desperate need of sorting out. thanks for the prompt. Hugs Mrs A.

Oooh this is great - I havent played along this week but hoping to catch up today! Love your step card on the previous post - they are such fun arent they! Oooh and thanks for joining in my blog hop - its all happening here I tell you!

Hi Sam! Both your card and tag look fab! I see what you mean about the water marks but honestly it looks great both ways. And it seems you have figured out a way to get the bigger drops as well! Sorry to I have not been by in awhile but I did want to say thank you for the kind comment you left on the passing of my dog. I see you have been busy busy on your cards and layouts! You are such a talented lady, I love all the layouts posted below!xoxoKaren

You are definitely braver than me, anything distress related sends me into a tail spin lol. Love the numbers tag and you are right numbers certainly rule our lives or it could be tha tonight I had to make a 30 & 18 card lol. Hugs, Amanda x